Arnold Federbush
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Arnold Federbush was the author
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 of two 1970s science fiction
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 novels:
  • The Man who Lived in Inner Space (1973), ISBN 0-395-14074-9. It concerns a marine biologist who is transformed into a new species of amphibious humanity, which can live in the ocean depths, Earth's "inner space".
  • Ice! (1978), ISBN 0-553-12151-0. It describes a return of the Ice Age in months, rather than centuries. It tells of the realization that an Ice Age is rapidly approaching, yet only a few people know this. And in effect, major weather changes begin to kill out large parts of Earth's population before the glaciers even hit the higher latitudes.

Note: This, and many other details of plot, characters, and package artwork, are similar to the 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling which leads to a new ice age. The film did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally...

" -- possibly because of genre convergence.

Federbush was born in New York, the son of a clothing manufacturer who had been a colleague in Palestine of Zeev Jabotinsky. He attended UCLA's film school, where his classmates included Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
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 and Noel Black
Noel Black
Noel Black is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.Black was born in Chicago, Illinois. He won awards at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for an 18-minute short subject filmed in 1965 called Skaterdater. It had no dialogue, but used music and sound effects to advance...

. His ambition was to be a screenwriter. After some years working as a film editor for Black and others, and finding that pitches for screenplays were (at the time) better received if they were based on already published books, he wrote his two novels, both of which were successful enough to be translated into many European languages and to remembered fondly to this day by fans of ecologically-themed science fiction.

Federbush was a life-long fitness enthusiast, and a non-smoking member of the original Muscle Beach
Muscle Beach
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crowd. However, he was diagnosed with apparently spontaneous lung cancer after it had fatally spread to his liver. He died with his third novel -- about spontaneous human combustion -- unfinished.

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